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100
This is the original name of Halloween.
What is Samhain?
100
Complete this title: A Nightmare on _____ Street
What is Elm?
100
The name of the Gothic novel about a scientist who creates a monster is called this
What is Frankenstein?
100
Vampires sleep during this time
What is daytime?
100
This instrument is played by Wednesday Adams.
What is the Cello?
100
According to the song, this family were 'creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky'
What is the Addams Family?
100
People "bob" for this fruit on Halloween
What are Apples?
200
This ethnicity first celebrated Halloween in Ancient Britain and Ireland.
What is the Celts?
200
The name of the holiday that coincides with Halloween in Mexico is called
What is Dia de Los Muertos? (Day of the Dead)
200
This movie was based on a novel by Peter Benchley about a great white shark that preys on the inhabitants of a small beach town
What is JAWS?
200
This is the name of the father in "The Addams Family."
Gomez Addams
200
This movie franchise is set on a day thought to bring bad luck.
What is "Friday the Thirteenth"?
200
The movie that these lyrics come from "If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call" is called
What is the Ghostbusters?
200
Is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?
A pumpkin is a fruit.
It is in the same category as a cucumber.
300
What was believed to return home on Halloween night?
What is the ghosts/souls who had died?
300
Name the city AND state most notable for witches
What is Salem, Massachusetts?
300
Written by Stephen King, a story of a shy, friendless teenage girl who takes revenge on her classmates after being humiliated at her senior prom
What is Carrie?
300
The first name of Dr. Frankenstein
Who is Victor?
300
This movie features a clown that emerges from the sewer every 27 years to prey on the town's children
IT
300
In this song's music video Michael Jackson transforms and dances as a zombie
What is Thriller?
300
The record for the heaviest pumpkin ever is held by this country.
What is the USA? (2,749 lbs - Travis Gienger of Anoka, MN - 50th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off 2023)
400
This was the original purpose of wearing a mask or disguise on Halloween.
What is to avoid being recognized by the ghosts thought to be present?
400
Transylvania otherwise known as the home to Count Dracula is located in this country
What is Romania?
400
The classic Frankenstein book was written by the following author
Who is Mary Shelley?
400
This horror film character wields a glove with razors for fingers
Who is Freddy Krueger?
400
Tim Burton's features the headless horseman in the following movie
What is Sleepy Hollow?
400
There is a band from North America called "_______ Pumpkins."
What is the Smashing?
400
Bakers would hide this knitting tool, which originally protects your thumbs, in traditional Irish Barmbrack cakes
What is a thimble?
500
Name at least 3 different monsters originally associated with the holiday.
1. Witches
2. Hobgoblins
3. Fairies
4. Demons
500
In which state is Sleepy Hollow located?
What is New York
500
The classic novel Dracula was written by
Who is Bram Stoker?
500
This character portrayed by Johnny Depp is a barber who kills all his clients
Sweeney Todd
500
This is how many times you have to say Beetlejuice’s name to get him to show up.
What is three?
500
This song by The Cranberries is considered one of their most famous pieces.
What is Zombie?
500
Nougat, caramel and peanuts are included in the first ever fun-size chocolate bars
What is Snickers?
600
This Roman holiday, replaced the original name of Halloween after they conquered the Celts.
What is Feralia?
600
This infamous location is the setting for the first Friday the 13th movie with Jason Voorhees
Where is Camp Crystal Lake?
600
At Hogwarts, Harry, Ron and Hermione mark the 31 October with the following activity
What is the annual Hogwarts Halloween Feast?
600
Samara from the movie 'The Ring' whisper the following thing on the phone
What is Seven Days?
600
What ship brought Count Dracula to Britain, as depicted in this 2023 film titled "The Last Voyage of the ________".
What is the Demeter?
600
Finish the lyrics from "This is Halloween": "This is Halloween, this is Halloween. _____ scream in the dead of night."
What are Pumpkins?
600
The original name for Candy corn is
Chicken Feed
🐔
700
This Pope established "All Saints Day" in the 7th century.
Who is Pope Boniface IV?
700
In the horror movie, Halloween, the fictional town of Haddonfield is located in which state?
Where is Illinois?
700
Name the novel this famous quote comes from:
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
What is The Shining?
700
Another more common name for Lycanthropes
What are werewolves?
700
The name given to Santa Claus by Jack Skellington in Tim Burton's movie Nightmare before Christmas
What is Sandy Claus?
700
In this song Billie Eilish sings from the perspective of a monster under someone's bed.
What is Bury a Friend?
700
The decade where ‘fun size’ chocolate bars were first introduced
What are the 1960s?
800
Much like Christmas Eve, Halloween is the eve of which holiday?
What is All Saints Day?
800
Vampire Bats are from this continent
What is Central and South America?
800
This many witches appear in Shakespeare's Macbeth
What is three?
800
This famous magician actually died on Halloween
Who is Harry Houdini?
800
This iconic series of films claims to be the most successful horror franchise in history.
What is the Conjuring series?
800
In the movie "Hocus Pocus", the song that the Sanderson sisters sing at the Halloween party is called
What is I Put a Spell on You?
800
This is the percentage of people in the USA that prefer chocolate as their Halloween candy
What is 70%?
900
Halloween became a secular holiday during this famous age of time.
What is the Middle Ages?
900
In this American State, which is part of the Bible Belt, you are not allowed to dress up as a nun or a priest
What is Alabama?
900
This was Dracula's real name
Who is Vlad the Impaler ?
(Vlad III)
900
The name of the mythical creature used by adults to frighten children into good behavior, is synonymous with a music style from the late 1970s
What is the Bogeyman/Boogeyman?
900
In 1973, the movie that convinced Americans to throw away their Ouija boards is called
What is The Exorcist?
900
Finish the lyrics from “monster Mash”: “I was working in the _____ late on night, when my eyes beheld an eerie sight.”
What is Lab?
900
America's favorite Halloween candy is
What are Reese's Cups?
1000
This British practice became associated with Trick-or-Treating during Halloween.
What is allowing the poor to beg for food?
1000
In this southern European country, children go from door to door on All Saints Day asking for Pão de Deus
What is Portugal?
1000
The radio drama based on this book by H.G. Wells' caused a mass panic on October 30, 1938
What is War of the Worlds?
1000
Hannibal Lecter is played by this actor in its first and most horrifying film depiction
Who is Anthony Hopkins?
1000
What sort of mask does Michael Myers wear in the original Halloween?
What is a William Shatner (Captain Kirk) mask that was spray-painted white
*Because the studio had such a small budget, they had to use the cheapest mask they could find.
1000
Vince Guaraldi wrote and preformed the music for this famous Halloween cartoon that is played every year.
What is "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown"?
1000
The first jack-o'-lanterns were made from these hardy vegetable
turnips & potatoes